Have you bought red onions today? Prices of the major spice went up a day before New Year’s Eve. In one popular grocery store in Cagayan de Oro, the price range from P365 to P392.50 a kilo which is already twice the price less than two weeks ago at P180.
Onion is a basic ingredient in many of popular Filipino dish.
Check out the price monitoring conducted by the Department of Agriculture below at Carmen Public Market where onion price range from P300 to P400.
Here are the prices at Puerto Market.
Compare the prices last week (December 23) and at Cogon Public Market.
The price now is already twice the price last December 21.
Prices of basic goods are expected to increase as the demand rises during the holiday season.
with images by DA RFO-10